Comments on: Easy Pasta Salad & DNA #ScienceSundays

By: Jalapeno Popper Pasta Salad

Jalapeno Popper Pasta Salad — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 18:32:54 +0000

[…] my family it’s my dad’s creamy potato salad while in Bob’s family it’s an Italian pasta salad. But of course you know I had to change things up, especially when I had some of Woeber’s […]

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 12:08:28 +0000

In reply to Susan. Fascinating that they were teaching that over 50 years ago and still we continue to divide ourselves and fight against one another. Just goes to show how deep rooted it is and how much work needs to be done. I'm glad you enjoyed it! I could talk about genetics for hours but I tried to keep it short(ish). I will have to look up that book.

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 16:12:16 +0000

Erin, your discussion of genetics took me way, way, way back to when I was in college in the 1960s. I remember studying bacteriophages in genetics class. And, even better, I took an anthropology class called “The Concept of Race”, from a well-known physical anthropologist, which pointed out that if you lined up everyone in the world according to racial characteristics, you would have a continuum with peaks and valleys – and no way to separate out particular races. That’s the one thing I remember from that class. I’m currently reading Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, and even though I’ve studied basic genetics and have been into biology for the vast majority of my life, I still find myself envying people who truly understand all that stuff. My brain just doesn’t wrap around that extremely complicated and detailed stuff. I’m glad you posted this discussion.